General theory may refer to:
- Generalized Theory of Gravitation
- General Theory of Relativity
- General Systems Theory
- Generalized cohomology theory
- General theory of collaboration
- The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, a book written by John Maynard Keynes
Famous quotes containing the words general and/or theory:
“The tremendous outflow of intellectuals that formed such a prominent part of the general exodus from Soviet Russia in the first years of the Bolshevist Revolution seems today like the wanderings of some mythical tribe whose bird-signs and moon-signs I now retrieve from the desert dust.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“It makes no sense to say what the objects of a theory are,
beyond saying how to interpret or reinterpret that theory in another.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)